Reviewer:
Valter Sampaio Filho
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August 2, 2021
Subject:
Book is awesome, but its archiving is not so good
I love the Monkees and their music. My love on them had taken me to read many books about them, and one of these books is The Monkees: The Day By Day Story (...) from Andrew Sandoval, the famous Monkees archivist. The so-called Monkees Bible has a lot of important information, and that's why so many authors who wrote about the Monkees use the Sandoval book as a reference. But there's a very negative feature, and it's not in the book itself, but on its archiving to the Internet Archive. There are too many pages missing on the archive, specially on the book's start. Until the part of the Headquarters sessions, most of the pages about the recording of the eponymous debut album and its follow-up, More of the Monkees, are not on the archive, and there are also some notebook sheets covering other pages as well. I don't know why these things happened, but these problems affect much of the experience of reading this book. There are no other ways to read the book online (the other sites actually who offer the book to read online and free are deceptive and virus-filled, buying the physical book is too expensive), so I simply want that those problems will be corrected. But despite these problems, this book is incredible.